How Do I Remove System I Don't Care About?

[Guybrush3pwood]

I realize this has been asked a million times, but everything I've found on the topic doesn't match what I have. Some info about my setup:

Version 8.0-electron
Connecting to my system with both windows exporer and putty.

Most solutions state to just delete the roms in the folder, however, I never put any roms in the folder, it's what came preloaded on the system, but when I go into the folder using windows explorer, there's already nothing in the folder except a handful of readme documents. There are already no roms in the folder as far as I can tell. I have hidden items enabled and nada, yet the systems and preloaded roms still show up in Recalbox.

I tried creating a folder called unused and just cutting and pasting the systems I didn't want into that folder, but upon reboot it just put all the folders back, only this time completely empty, and yet they still show up. I'm not sure what I'm missing here.

[olivierdroid92]

@guybrush3pwood
Hi, just remove ROM file from the folder , then reboot

[Guybrush3pwood]

@olivierdroid92 See my OP. I did that. There are no roms in the folder. It still shows up.

[Guybrush3pwood]

Figured it out. There's a setting for hiding preinstalled roms. Enable that and all those systems will vanish.

[Sammyvee]

Hi Guybrush3pwood, what did you do to fix this exactly? I have been trying to hide unwanted systems for the past week with no luck. I've read all the posts regarding this issue, none help me.

I have no roms in the ROMS folder to delete, and yet the systems are showing in the menu, and also have the pre-installed games that actually work. Where are these roms coming from? Thanks.

[Sammyvee]

I just found that there are two locations for the ROMS,

1. /recalbox/share/roms/<systems>

and

2. /recalbox/share_init/roms/<systems>

So I found where the roms are stored, the question now is how do I delete these unwanted roms? I am using WinSPC to connect to the Recalbox, when I try to delete the roms from /recalbox/share_init/roms/<systems> folder I get the following error message.

The file is on read-only media, or the media is write protected.
Error code: 12
Error message from server (en): Read-only file system

How do I remove the read only attribute?

[rollbrett]

@sammyvee
You can remount your system as read/write with this command:

mount -o remount,rw /

[rollbrett]

@rollbrett said in How Do I Remove System I Don't Care About?:

@sammyvee
You can remount your system as read/write with this command:

mount -o remount,rw /

You can found this command in the documentation

https://wiki.recalbox.com/en/tutorials/system/access/folders-and-ssh-commands

[Bkg2k]

@sammyvee I wouldn't recommend to modify anything in the read-only system. Next update will reset all the system.

[RustyMG]

Unless Im missing something or miss understand your problem, you just select the hide pre installed roms / games option, restart Recalbox, job done.

I use this so the "Ports" system doesn't appear on the list of systems available, although if I look on the drive, the folder is still there.

[rollbrett]

@rustymg I understood his problem this way, he want not all pre installed games to be hide, only a few ones. and when he use the "Hide" function in the Recalbox Options all of the games are hidden.

Or iam totaly wrong, and he do not knew that he can use the "hide" function from the Menu

[Sammyvee]

@rollbrett That is correct. I wanted to only hide some systems and thought the only way to do this is to delete the roms in the system folders I did not want.

Thanks to all for helping me out.